Turn To News

The '''"Turn To News"''' package was composed by [[United States|American]] composer [[Frank Gari]] in 1983 and its first client was [[WKYC-TV]] in [[Cleveland]]. The station composed a jingle around the theme called "Turn to 3", with Gari himself singing the lead. A year later, Gari was asked by [[WXYZ-TV]] in Detroit, which had used his [["So Good To Turn To"]] news package, to update "Turn to 3". He came up with "Stand Up and Tell 'em You're from Detroit!" The promo campaign for WXYZ became a huge success and spread to several stations around the country, including [[KMGH]] in [[Denver]], [[WDSU]] in [[New Orleans]], [[WSMV]] in [[Nashville]], and [[WHOI-TV]] in [[Peoria, IL]]. The last station to use this package, according to the News Music Search archive, was [[WNCT-TV]] in [[Greenville, North Carolina|Greenville]]-[[New Bern, North Carolina|New Bern]]-[[Washington, North Carolina|Washington]], [[NC]] in 1998. The package was not only used in the United States. It was used also by Australia's [[Network Ten]]'s [[Brisbane]] station [[TVQ-10]], and was also adopted in other languages, such as [[French language|French]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]].

==Stations that used Turn to News==

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| '''[[Designated market area|DMA]]#'''
| '''DMA Name'''
| '''Station'''
| '''Affiliation'''
| '''Years Used'''
| '''Other Notes'''
|-
| 4.
| [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]
| [[KYW-TV|KYW]]
| [[CBS]], then [[NBC]]
| 1986-1991
|
|-
| 9.
| [[Atlanta, Georgia]]
| [[WSB-TV]]
| [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| 1986-1988
|
|-
| 17.
| [[Cleveland, Ohio]]
| [[WKYC-TV]]
| NBC
| 1984-1990
| First station to commission the package
|-
| 18.
| [[Denver, Colorado]]
| [[KMGH-TV]]
| ABC, then CBS
| 1985-1987
|
|-
| 19.
| [[Orlando, Florida]]
| [[WKMG-TV|WCPX]]
| CBS
| 1987-1989
|
|-
| 22.
| [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]
| [[WTAE]]
| ABC
| 1986-1989
|
|-
| 28.
| [[Hartford, CT|Hartford]]/[[New Haven, CT|New Haven]], [[Connecticut]]
| [[WTIC-TV]]
| [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]]
| 1989-1991
|
|-
| 38.
| [[West Palm Beach, Florida]]
| [[WPEC]]
| CBS, ABC until 1990
| 1987-1992
|
|-
| 40.
| [[Birmingham, Alabama]]
| [[WBRC]]
| FOX, then ABC
| 1985-1990
|
|
|-
| 42.
| [[Norfolk, Virginia]]
| [[WVEC-TV]]
| ABC
| 1984-1991
| Used a customized update from 1989-1991
|
|-
| 43.
| [[Las Vegas, Nevada]]
| [[KVBC]]
| NBC
| 1986-1990
|
|-
| 44.
| [[Memphis, Tennessee]]
| [[WMC-TV]]
| NBC
| 1986-1995
|
|-
| 47.
| [[Greensboro, North Carolina]]
| [[WGHP]]
| FOX, then ABC
| 1984-1988
|
|-
| 48.
| [[Louisville, Kentucky]]
| [[WHAS-TV|WHAS]]
| ABC, then CBS
| 1985-1989
|
|-
| 54.
| [[New Orleans, Louisiana]]
| [[WDSU]]
| NBC
| 1985-1987
|
|-
| 55.
| [[Fresno, California]]
| [[KFSN]]
| ABC
| 1986-1994
|
|-
| 79.
| [[Syracuse, New York]]
| [[WTVH]]
| CBS
| 1986-1989
|
|-
| 82.
| [[Champaign, Illinois]]
| [[WICD]]
| ABC, then NBC
| 1993-1994
|
|-
| 89.
| [[Cedar Rapids, Iowa]]
| [[KCRG]]
| ABC
| 1985-1989
|
|-
| 119.
| [[Fargo, North DAKOTA]]
| [[WDAY-TV|WDAY]]
| ABC
| 1987-1996
|
|-
| 151.
| [[Terre Haute, Indiana]]
| [[WTHI-TV|WTHI]]
| CBS
| 1986-1987
|}

==External links==
*[http://www.southernmedia-nmsa.com/index.php?page=3,1,77 List of American stations that have used the TURN TO NEWS package]
**[http://www.southernmedia-nmsa.com/index.php?page=3,3,6 List of American stations that have used the STAND UP/TURN TO image campaign]

[[Category:Television news music packages]]